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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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